24 March, 2017

Venezuelan military finds US army uniforms in paramilitary border camp

Tachira
— where the paramilitary camp was discovered — was also the
region where the government found a large cache of Venezuelan
currency in December.

Venezuela’s
Bolivarian National Armed Forces, FANB, dismantled a right-wing
paramilitary camp near the Colombian border Tuesday, discovering U.S.
army uniforms, among others.

The FANB
also discovered stolen Venezuelan military uniforms as well as combat
attire belonging to the Colombian military forces.

“We are
advancing an investigation,” Tachira Governor Jose Gregorio
Vielma Mora said at a press conference, according to HispanTV. “We
found accounting books with a list of victims of extortion on the
site.”

Right-wing
Colombian paramilitaries are responsible for the deaths of tens of
thousands of Colombians since the 1950s. Usually targeted are
campesinos, Indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, human rights
activists and those sympathetic to Colombia’s leftist guerrilla
movements and Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.

Tachira —
where the paramilitary camp was discovered — was also the region
where the FANB found in December a large cache of bolivars, the
country’s currency, which was being extracted and hoarded in an
effort to sabotage the economy and make huge profits.

The FANB’s
paramilitary camp discovery substantiates claims that the U.S. Army
is training right-wing paramilitaries to spread terror in the region.
It also reaffirms suspicions that U.S.-backed forces are using FANB
uniforms for false flag attacks.

On Tuesday,
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced U.S. plans to work with
right-wing politicians in the region to destabilize Venezuela. The
socialist leader also condemned attempts by the Organization of
American States to suspend the country’s membership.

“The
U.S. State Department has activated all its ambassadors in the world,
particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, pressing all
governments to support a political, diplomatic and global
intervention in Venezuela,” Maduro said during a Cabinet
meeting, adding that Washington is trying to make Venezuela a “kind
of colony” ruled from outside by wealthy U.S. elites, HispanTV
reported.

OAS
Secretary-General Luis Almagro has been calling for the suspension of
Venezuela from the multinational organization over alleged “human
rights violations,” asking the body to invoke the Democratic
Charter against the South American country. Almagro, a longtime foe
of the Bolivarian Revolution, openly works with the country’s
right-wing opposition to demand regime change, hosting a press
conference with known opposition leaders just this past Monday.